Hacker News: jamesfisher

New comment by jamesfisher in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

jamesfisher — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:25:53 +0000

Reminder that if your agent can create PRs then it can merge them too: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/182732

Tell HN: If your agent can create a PR, it can merge it too

jamesfisher — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:39:17 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/182732

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584372

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jamesfisher in "All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)"

jamesfisher — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:41:22 +0000

Does this really need a (2025) clarification? That was 6 days ago

New comment by jamesfisher in "Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good"

jamesfisher — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:16:40 +0000

F-Droid website is awful for a curious visitor. Serves me a .apk with no further instructions. What am I supposed to do with that?

New comment by jamesfisher in "Suspicionless ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law"

jamesfisher — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:54:50 +0000

Ha, a lovely new meaning for “rolling your own crypto”

Sticky snap: a better snapping algorithm

jamesfisher — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 19:03:06 +0000

Article URL: https://jameshfisher.com/2025/06/29/a-better-snapping-algorithm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415451

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Start with a dot-plot

jamesfisher — Sat, 10 May 2025 19:31:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.granola.ai/blog/dot-plot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43948211

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jamesfisher in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)"

jamesfisher — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:11:28 +0000

Granola | London, UK | On-site | https://granola.ai

Granola is an AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings. Our macOS app takes your meeting notes and combines them with a transcript to get an awesome meeting summary. And increasingly, Granola is a new kind of knowledge-base.

We're 15 people working in lovely Shoreditch office. See our approach to early-stage product development: https://www.granola.ai/blog/how-to-evolve-a-product

Stack: TypeScript, React, Electron, AWS, various LLM tech.

We recently raised $20M and we're growing very quickly. We're funded by Spark Capital, with participation from investors AI Grant, Lightspeed, Betaworks, Firstminute Capital, and others.

Open roles:

- Product Engineers (Backend & Frontend)

- iOS Engineer

- Electron Engineer

- AI Engineer

- Founding Designer

Competitive compensation with above-market equity.

See https://granola.ai/jobs or email hiring@granola.so.

How I fixed an expensive CSS animation

jamesfisher — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:26:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.granola.ai/blog/dont-animate-height

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43843228

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jamesfisher in "A new form of verification on Bluesky"

jamesfisher — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:12:04 +0000

> Trust doesn’t come only from the top down [...] So, we’re also enabling trusted verifiers: organizations that can directly issue blue checks.

Is this not still a top-down system, just with one level of indirection?

Something not-top-down might look more like the web-of-trust model.

New comment by jamesfisher in "Palestinian activist arrested by ICE while expecting U.S. citizenship interview"

jamesfisher — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:38:46 +0000

As hackers, what can we do to work against the genocide, unconstitutional arrests, Zionist expansionism, Israeli control of western politics, etc?

Gazans tell BBC of torture in Israeli detention

jamesfisher — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 07:22:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7vje365rno

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43619178

Points: 102

# Comments: 24

New comment by jamesfisher in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)"

jamesfisher — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:31:48 +0000

Granola | London, UK | On-site | https://granola.ai

We're 15 people working in lovely Shoreditch office. See our approach to early-stage product development: https://www.granola.ai/blog/how-to-evolve-a-product

Stack: TypeScript, React, Electron, AWS, various LLM tech.

We recently raised $20M and we're growing quickly. We're funded by Spark Capital, with participation from investors AI Grant, Lightspeed, Betaworks, Firstminute Capital, and others.

Open roles:

- Product Engineers (Backend & Frontend) - iOS Engineer - Windows Engineer (contract) - AI Engineer - Founding Designer

Competitive compensation with above-market equity.

See https://granola.ai/jobs or email hiring@granola.so.

Don't Animate Height

jamesfisher — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 12:47:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.granola.ai/blog/dont-animate-height

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877235

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by jamesfisher in "UI is hell: four-function calculators"

jamesfisher — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:33:38 +0000

As usual, this is completely unreadable on mobile due to Substack's hatred for zoom

New comment by jamesfisher in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)"

jamesfisher — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:08:12 +0000

Granola | London, UK | On-site | https://granola.ai

Granola is like Apple notes, but it also transcribes your meeting to enhance your notes. We recently raised $20M and we're growing quickly.

Stack: TypeScript, React, Electron, AWS, macOS, various LLM tech.

We're eight friendly people working in a Shoreditch office. We're product-focussed generalists. See our approach to early-stage product development: https://www.granola.ai/blog/how-to-evolve-a-product

Open roles:

- Product Engineer

- AI Engineer

- macOS Software Engineer

- Founding Product Marketer

Competitive compensation with above-market equity.

See https://granola.ai/jobs or email hiring@granola.so.

New comment by jamesfisher in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024)"

jamesfisher — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:02:51 +0000

Granola | London, UK | Full-time | On-site | https://granola.ai

People in back-to-back meetings use Granola to write summaries using their transcripts and raw notes. We're backed by top investors (Lightspeed, AI Grant) and growing quickly.

Stack: TypeScript, React, Electron, Node.js, AWS, native macOS APIs, various LLM tech.

Seven friendly people working in a Shoreditch office. We're product-focussed generalists. See our approach to early-stage product development: https://www.granola.ai/blog/how-to-evolve-a-product

Open roles:

- Product Engineer

- AI Engineer

- macOS Software Engineer

- Founding Product Marketer

Competitive compensation with above-market equity.

See https://granola.ai/jobs or email hiring@granola.so.